All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) has warned that it will launch a countrywide strike, if the gas supply was not restored to the industry forthwith. Industrial sector is crippling owing to absence of smooth supply of gas in the country, said APTMA Chief, Mohsin Aziz, while talking to media on Friday. He expressed a grave concern over disconnection of gas supply to the industry; in particular in Punjab, where industry was hitting hard by gas load shedding. Owing to this productivity and export ratio has immensely declined, he reiterated.
Mr Aziz said industry had already been devastated by gas curtailment for long periods and crippling bank interest rates. Due to unprecedented gas disconnection, electricity stoppage and high interest rates, he said that sector was plunging into collapse.
